51.   Consumers are expected to buy more goods through catalogs this year, said J. Steven Kelly, a marketing professor at the DePaul University College of Commerce.

52.   Commerce on the Internet continues to grow as consumers increasingly turn to their computers to buy goods ranging from stocks to books.

53.   Construction projects have been canceled and consumers are buying fewer goods made with copper.

54.   Cybercash is developing -- not selling -- software to let people buy goods on the Internet without revealing their credit card numbers.

55.   Demand for houses is a key indicator of economic activity because new homeowners tend to buy household goods ranging from beds to the sheets that cover them.

56.   Employers who can hire cheaper labor, and consumers who can buy cheaper goods, according to Borjas.

57.   Even barter, the practice of buying goods with other goods instead of with money, has made a comeback.

58.   Even the timing of when consumers buy goods has changed.

59.   Federal Reserve Board Gov. Laurence Lindsay said consumers are borrowing more to make day-to-day purchases, rather than to buy durable goods such as cars.

60.   For consumers, the weaker currency made imports expensive, but consumers switched to buying domestic goods rather than cutting back, another boon for the economy.